{"id":72641,"date":"2023-10-30T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=72641"},"modified":"2023-10-30T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:22:56","slug":"is-cummings-being-trolled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/30\/is-cummings-being-trolled\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Cummings being trolled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/oct\/30\/uk-covid-inquiry-reaches-week-of-potentially-damning-testimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a> notes this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\">After four months of hearings, the official Covid inquiry reaches a week of hugely significant and potentially damning testimony, evidence that could shine a deeply unforgiving light on the inner workings of Boris Johnson\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They add:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\">Among the witnesses are\u00a0Dominic Cummings, Johnson\u2019s former chief adviser, and Lee Cain, his ex-communications chief, plus a string of other senior aides and top civil servants of the time \u2013 several of whom first became known to the public because of illicit Covid parties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it just me thinking this, or is someone at the inquiry with a dark sense of humour trolling Cummings by demanding that he present his evidence on Halloween? The evidence will be under oath and discussion can cover his trip to Barnard Castle.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it's widely thought that his WhatsApps are daming. There is much on in the world, but it's worth keeping an eye on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The Guardian notes this morning: After four months of hearings, the official Covid inquiry reaches a week of hugely significant and potentially damning testimony,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/30\/is-cummings-being-trolled\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,181,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-coronavirus","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72642,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72641\/revisions\/72642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}